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The CHEENEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 194 88825 0 1
United States (1880 census) 572 8682 0.001 11
Change since 1880 -378 -80143 +N/A -10
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for CHEENEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Michigan 17 54917 0.000 2
Arizona 16 26588 0.000 3
California 16 101057 0.000 0
Missouri 16 29135 0.000 3
Wyoming 16 3615 0.003 32
Top States for CHEENEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wyoming 16 3615 0.003 32
New Hampshire 11 11441 0.001 9
Nevada 13 14691 0.001 7
Vermont 2 26618 0.000 3
Arizona 16 26588 0.000 3

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called CHEENEY live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called CHEENEY represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called CHEENEY in Michigan than any other state, but you are more likely to find a CHEENEY by picking someone at random in Wyoming than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of CHEENEY

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the CHEENEY surname.

Ethnic distribution of CHEENEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 185 95.36
Mixed Race 6 3.09
Asian/Pacific None reported 0
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the CHEENEY surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

CHEENEY is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of CHEENEY in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of CHEENEY.

Similar names to CHEENEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CHEENEY.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for CHEENEY

The following words are slight variants of CHEENEY that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.